Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic highly skilled and motivated registered practitioner to join the Community learning Disability Team in North Tyneside as a Learning Disability Clinical Educator. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.
This post will suit candidates who thrive in roles which include variety, complexity and challenges alongside opportunities for growth. You must have a range of experience of working with people with a learning disability to enable you to upskill the workforce in developing their skills, knowledge and confidence in supporting people with a learning disability across both community and acute settings.
You are required to have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and will need to be a highly motivated, committed practitioner who is passionate about delivering high quality education and guidance. You will provide expert assistance, support and exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. The role will have a significant amount of innovation, quality improvement and pathway development alongside the Community Learning Disability Team and Learning Disability Acute Liaison Nurses. If you feel you have the above attributes, then we would look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of the Learning Disability Clinical Educator role is to understand the barriers and challenges with current training offers and co-produce a sustainable, accessible and high-quality training offer to community and acute staff within Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust. Upskilling the workforce and providing ongoing learning for staff and health professionals who support people with learning disabilities to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and accessible patient care, driving down health inequalities for those living with a learning disability.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post will work trust wide into both acute and community services across NMAHP to;
- Comprehensively map education provision across the service.
- Work with staff to identify learning needs and support opportunities and training to meet those needs.
- Develop and deliver on-going education and training packages.
- Provide high quality, education across the trust raising awareness in supporting people with a learning disability.
- Evaluate the impact of education on staff knowledge, skills and behaviours as well as patient care.
- Act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of care.
- Promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development with the workforce.
- Work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce.
- Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post will work trust wide into both acute and community services across NMAHP to;
- Comprehensively map education provision across the service.
- Work with staff to identify learning needs and support opportunities and training to meet those needs.
- Develop and deliver on-going education and training packages.
- Provide high quality, education across the trust raising awareness in supporting people with a learning disability.
- Evaluate the impact of education on staff knowledge, skills and behaviours as well as patient care.
- Act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of care.
- Promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development with the workforce.
- Work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce.
- Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Post registration qualification relevant to specialty or equivalent experience
- Professional registration with NMC
- Degree level of knowledge or equivalent level of knowledge and / or experience, supplemented by specialist knowledge relevant to the role to masters level or equivalent experience
- Registered mentor
- Qualification in teaching, learning and assessing in clinical practice and significant experience of delivering training and education in the clinical setting
- IT skills to produce educational resources, reports and data
Desirable
- Trained clinical supervisor
- Leadership qualification
- Trained coach
- Non-medical prescribing
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Post registration qualification relevant to specialty or equivalent experience
- Professional registration with NMC
- Degree level of knowledge or equivalent level of knowledge and / or experience, supplemented by specialist knowledge relevant to the role to masters level or equivalent experience
- Registered mentor
- Qualification in teaching, learning and assessing in clinical practice and significant experience of delivering training and education in the clinical setting
- IT skills to produce educational resources, reports and data
Desirable
- Trained clinical supervisor
- Leadership qualification
- Trained coach
- Non-medical prescribing
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
